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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 24/09/2025

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health. I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 12/06/2025

The sole thing I'm content with? I saw this shit with LA coming. ...In fact, thinking about it, the DOGE part was the only stuff I got wrong... ...Hmmm.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 12/06/2025

I'm genuinely checking the news regularly and waiting to get a feel for how everything's likely to shake out so I can rewrite it. I've been doing this for, oh, six months.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 12/06/2025

So, what happened to the near-future novel I was writing? It's parked on ice. Plot was solid, tested really well, but I made the crucial mistake of being way too optimistic about the progress of fascism in the USA. However, I also overestimated their competence in executing their schemes, frankly.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 06/04/2025

My hard tilt to utopian fiction would cause a small thunderclap.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/04/2025

Compare and contrast with what the legislators of other countries have done in response to things 1/100th as bad. But mainly, the American public needs to realise the Democrats also serve the ultra rich, and are just as happy for an economic crash that lets Berkshire Hathaway etc buy everything.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/04/2025

"What do you want them to do?" Actually disrupt and block all government business, and use every opportunity to tell the American public that a fascist takeover by oligarchs has happened and the republic has fallen. Then say things in congress that everyone else would be renditioned for.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/04/2025

That long speech in the senate? No call to direct action, no articulated plan for the public, and it didn't really disrupt anything that mattered. The Democrats are masters of using symbol without substance. But it did let Chuck Schumer interject, get on TV, and reform his image to be more active.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/04/2025

Going to be real, the current vibe of the Democrats and the popular protests is this comic from 2005.

The Pain - When Will It End? Webcomic by Tim Krieder. Title of piece is "Liberals vs. The Empire."

A hippy-style protest, with signs such as "The People are the 'Ultimate Power'" and "NO to Galactic Imperialism" and Darth Vader in effigy. In the background, thr Death Star hovers ominously, with a jagged, speaker speech bubble saying "Commencing Primary Ignition."

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A government against protest is authoritarian, and Authoritarianism becomes Fascism as soon as shit hits the fan. Check out Sinan's video: it's good, actually. More generally, please support voices like Sinan's by liking and sharing, especially outside your usual circles. We need this pushback.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/03/2025

If all the Americans asking Canada to save them through annexation were serious, what they'd actually say is "I want to be Canadian." That they don't is really telling about how they see Canada's role: in support of American protagonism.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 19/03/2025

Staring into the cold, dark void into which every society on earth is slowly being tipped, and asking "At what point do we admit this arrangement has failed, and eat the rich?"

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 14/03/2025

Cynic in me thinks AOC, pretty captured these days, is the sanctioned opposition to the current Democratic leadership , and her job will be to head off the "Replace the incumbents!" movement by taking the lead and making sure their replacements are still fundamentally libs (despite fiery rhetoric).

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

All the criticisms I've made of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying programme, how it's smiling and polite eugenics against the poor and disabled, applies here. If you don't take a stand against this, I'm sorry, but you're sitting by while they gear up to murder the disabled. You have been warned.

Screenshot of post showing all amendments to medical suicide bill that have been voted down, all of them protections against abuse of the vulnerable. Author disabled quotes, but original is retweeted on my timeline.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/03/2025

Listen, I do appreciate the positive focus and I'm glad you're finding ways to be upbeat, but I'm sorry to say that's not quite what this post was about. It's not-so-lowkey about labour exploitation facilitated by mental health rhetoric as a coercive tool.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/03/2025

Man, when even fucking Colbert is criticising the Democrats for doing nothing, they're really far out on a limb.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

Best they can come up with is "This guy is a narcissist in it for attention, no, really, believe us," while photoshopping him and getting court artists to draw him like a cartoon villain. But man, he's called fucking /Luigi/. He's even got a hero's name. It's not sticking.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

They've got nothing in the tank. He's hot, principled, from a good family, got a sympathetic story, and he's exactly the kind of white where they can't pull the "Not really white!" card without igniting a firestorm of more sympathy from Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

Love the strategy they landed on for trying to monster Luigi Mangione: "Everyone says he's hot so... how about we try to portray him as a narcissist? Yeah, he did a thing people universally approve of, but he only did it for attention!" How do they soft launch it? "Hot guy made sex tapes!"

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

All those "Showing gratitude increases mental wellbeing!" studies you hear about: how many of them control for actually having something to feel grateful about? Seems to me that would be the more crucial component, no?

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

Anyone else noticed how Employee Appreciation days/weeks/months have morphed from being appreciation of the employees by their employers to being opportunities for employees to "show gratitude" to each other?

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 13/02/2025

Real Wile-E.-Coyote-refusing-to-look-down moment we have right now.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 13/02/2025

Kinda wild - that the only thing standing between the US Dollar being the global reserve currency and an astonishing bank run collapsing said dollar is a bunch of finance guys wrongly telling themselves "Well the government won't drain the accounts of anyone like /me/."

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

looking forward to getting an MRI later this month at the *squints* "MRI Van"? aye, sounds legit. don't mind me - i'm just off down the Taco Truck to get a colonoscopy. made an appointment at the Hotdog Cart to get an ultrasound. if you hear the ice cream jingle, that's just me getting an xray.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 10/02/2025

With astonishingly high levels of amfetamine-based medication, this too could be you!

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 07/02/2025

I won this! Carolyn's craft is absolutely phenomenal. I love this blanket so much — it's going to be my companion throughout the years ahead. Despite being woven from cool blue, it feels emotionally warm in a way I can't quite describe. I genuinely can't recommend her work highly enough.

Simply the finest, handmade blue blanket I've ever seen, that I will be carrying with me through the rest of my life.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/02/2025

AI can't really do hands holding things naturally, and it can't do perspective of objects held by hands. Look at the hand of the person in the red jacket holding the white flag: the stick breaks perspective either side of the hand. Fuck this theft engine shit. I'm so tired of them cheaping out.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/02/2025

In lighter news, excuse me while I do some ADHD bragging: For the first time since I started living where I am, I am completely on top of my laundry. Now comes the hard part: actually folding and putting stuff away...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/02/2025

why are you talking about this on social media

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 03/02/2025

9% of Libs let it happen because they understand what's actually going on and have made the calculation that they and theirs will be fine, so they'll just let it play. If they stand up to it, they risk reprisal, so why take the risk? 1% let it happen because they want it, they're just too cowardly.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 03/02/2025

I think this is the real reason 90% of Libs let their societies sleepwalk into fascism. Things can't be better, but it's okay because they're not going to get worse, right? The bad people won't be allowed to win because you don't get to act like that and win. You can't demand things and get them.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 03/02/2025

Libs genuinely cannot comprehend pressuring their representatives and demanding action, because they're so tamed that they can't conceive things can be better than they are. Admitting that better things might be possible opens the door to the libs having been in the way of them all along.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 03/02/2025

There's an amazing little trend on Liberal Bluesky I want to point out. Left: Do X, Y, and Z! 😡 Lib: Dems are doing all they can, stop hounding them. 🤫 *Dems do X and it works* Left: Okay! Now Y and Z! 😠 Lib: Typical; now the Left is saying X isn't enough. These children are never satisfied 🙄

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 02/02/2025

Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 02/02/2025

Glib answer: I'm looking forward to it being over. Sincere answer: all being well, I'm looking forward to actually getting a book out under my own name. Maybe. If the stars align. If I can feed and clothe myself...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 02/02/2025

So the Second American Civil War is starting to boil, eh.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

In short, if you're not actively resisting or engaged in subversion by this point, I think you've chosen which side you're on, and should be treated accordingly.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

If you still think the Democrats are going to save you and we should all fall in line behind them, I'm sorry, but you're no longer just a rube. You're complicit. You're one of the 12 guys at the table, looking at the Nazi and tutting while expecting some other guy to deal with it.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malevolence, sure. But the reverse is also true: Malevolence is cloaked by the pretext of incompetence. I firmly believe they do not care, because it doesn't touch them in an immediate or meaningful way, and many secretly agree.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

If the Democrats were an opposition, they'd be procedurally opposing everything, demanding judicial review of everything, showing up with media in tow to every wild event we're hearing about, daily calling out what we're seeing as the fascist oligarch takeover it is. They don't. They aren't.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

12 guys are sitting at a table, and then a Nazi joins them. The 12 guys don't kick him out. 13 Nazis are sitting at a table.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

The Democratic Party, as an institution, is fine with what's happening, because their major donors want it. Senior Democratic campaigners are also fine with it because it lets them pretend they're the good guys and rattle the can for donations. Understand this clearly: they're collaborators. 🧵

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

*sits cross-legged with a pot of green tea that slowly cools, meditatively contemplating the petition as day turns to night, in tune with the anima mundi, until at last the answer emerges — whereupon they type only four words* delete all after 'post'

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

genuinely crazed behaviour, kinda impressed you managed that

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

I have never once claimed to be experienced in the "post" genre. ...but if you want to pay me to fuck around and learn...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 30/01/2025

Anyway, that's it for updates, I'm off back to work. See you all when I either have novel updates, or I write another short story/essay on the spur of the moment. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, check this short story out: jthornburyauthor.com#shortstoryhw...

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